Re: The joy of octal

On 11/15/24 1:28 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:58:55 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    Wow ... haven't thought about octal/EBCDIC for a LONG time.

 Until three or four years ago a Midwestern US state's criminal justice API
used EBCDIC and the 3270 protocol. There is little uniformity in the
various state CJIN interfaces but that was one of the stranger ones.
 They must have finally ran out of parts for the card sorters on eBay when
they went to XML.

   Awwwww ... surely they can have those parts 3-D printed
   these days ! Why throw out perfectly good card readers ? :-)
   People will spend lots of money, invest a lot of pride,
   in having a running 1918 Model-T ...
   Again, not entirely sure where the end of octal was. Many
   of the PDPs used octal, and I *think* a few PIC chips.
   8/16/32 kinda took over kinda early on however.